This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 44: Tweet When Twitter Is Down

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS.  This week we continued SMS work,
made more daemons capable of reloading their configuration, and other
bugfixes.


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.5

1.6.5 is the current stable release, released May 16th.  It fixes a
number of bugs, and adds a few features.  For a full list, see the
bugzilla 1.6.5 milestone.  This is a non-critical but recommended
upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.5.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-165

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.6

1.7.6 is the current unstable release, tagged August 3rd.  Since 1.7.5,
there have been a ton of bugfixes, as well as updates to the RESTful
interfaces, inventory report updates, syslogd updates, collection
updates, new OpenManage and Cisco IP-SLA monitors, thresholding updates,
provisiond updates, map updates, and probably more stuff I'm missing.  A
1.7.x overview is available in the release notes on the site.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-17x


- Unstable: More Configuration Reload Fixes

Dave continued his work on making all of the daemons capable of
reloading their configuration without requiring a restart.  He fixed a
few bugs in the Statsd configuration reload, and then implemented
reloading in the TL1 daemon.

- Unstable: SMS Pinger/Request-Response API

Jeff has been working on finishing up adding USSD support to SMSlib, and
will be sending that upstream soon.  Matt and I continued working on the
SMS/USSD sequencing.  We have code able to track incoming and outgoing
messages, now we need to hook the up to SMSlib to finish things out.
Donald has been working on packaging, so that the SMS reflector (the
'pong' side of SMS testing) can be run as a standalone server.

- Unstable: Microblog Notification Strategy

Jeff added a microblog (Twitter/identi.ca/etc.) notification strategy
that will let you post or direct-message notifications.

- Unstable: DNS Import Handler

Dave worked this weekend on a DNS-based import handler.  It will
automatically import nodes through the provisioner based on the data in
your DNS server periodically.


Upcoming Events
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* September 10, 2009:
  Tarus Balog will be giving his talk, "So, You Think You Want to Start
  an Open Source Business" at the Triangle Linux Users Group.

    http://www.trilug.org/node/95

* September 19th, 2009:
  Tarus Balog to speak at Atlanta LinuxFest on the topic of running an
  open-source business.

    http://atlantalinuxfest.org/node/52

* September 21st-25th, 2009:
  OpenNMS training will be available through The OpenNMS Group at the
  OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

  For more information on training, go to:
    http://www.opennms.com/training.html

* October 28, 2009:
  Tarus Balog will be speaking at the Open Source Monitoring Conference
  2009 in Nuremberg.

  http://www.netways.de/en/osmc/y2009/referenten/

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.


Until Next Week...
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As always, if there's anything you'd like me to talk about in a future
TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or public DNS servers which
allow zone transfers you'd like to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.


-- 
Benjamin Reed
The OpenNMS Group
http://www.opennms.org/

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